Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-06
MOONEY.
HIS TRUNK WAS POUND PULL OF Elk
PLosIvES.
he is Committed for Examination ~ to
His Mental Conditional Queer
Story
New York Times1

tempted on Wednesday to burn the
National Line steamer The Queen by
throwing a bottle of phosphorus on
her deck as she lay at her pier, was ex-
amined yesterday afternoon at the JET
ferson- Market Court. The examination
was held in small room off the court
chamber, and mono were admitted
except those Immediately inter
ested in the case and the representa-
tives of the press. Mooney was
brought in half an hour before Judge
Duffy was ready to, take up the case.
Mooney appeared in his shirt-sleeves,
but one Of the officers having him in
charge soon gave him sack-coat OF
light summer cloth. The coat he wore
when arrested was retained by tho au-
thorities rs evidence, for there, were
stains upon il made by the contents OF
the bottle when it was flung, still burn
ing, from the deck of The Queen into
the boat in which Mooney was endea-
voring to escape.
Mooney has q cold steel-blue eye, and
his bald head is well shaped, indicating
some mental power. He refused to
talk to the reporters, making state
ment to that effect in well chosen Ian
guage. Some difficulty was experienced
yesterday in getting hold Of the keys
to The prisoners trunk and yallse.
Mooney was searched in the morning.
despite a warlike resistance, and finally
TIE KEYS were found in one of his socks.
Even then he refused to give them up
unless compelled to do so until Justice
Duffy ruled that they must be relin-
quished.
Fire-Marshal Sheldon was present at
tho examination, as were Mr.. Charles
Conyers, representing the National
Line; f. w. j. Hurst, Mr.. Chetwood,
counsel for the company, and Captain
Hadley, of the National Line steamer
France. A. T.. Hilley, second officer
of the steamer Guyandotte, was there
to see if Mooney bore any resemblance
to the mysterious stranger whom he
noticed hanging around the Old Do
minion dock just before the explosion
which injured the Guyandotto last
spring. He could discover no resem-
blauce, however. and went away. Fire
Marshal Sheldon expressed surprise
that he had not been notified of
MONEYS crime, and said tho man
should have been charged with Alison
in the second degree Instead OF at
tempted arson, as the vessel was ac-
ctually set on fire.
Captain Gastin told how he had gone
to Brooklyn, secured the prisoner
trunk and valiso, and examined them
at his police-station. He then dis
played collection OF articles taken
IRON them, which caused the Justice to
exclaim theoretically, "Now be care
full. Captain, how you handle those
things; they may be loaded, you
know"
The most formidable of the things u
were a four inch cylindrical brass bomb,
un!oaded, said to be a fac simiic OF the
internal machine used SO effectively in
the case of the Guyandotte a long coil
Of fuse, two packages OF chlorate OF
potash, one each of phosphorus and
sulphur, and a pound OF gun-powder.
There was also bundle OF glass tubes
filed with phosphorus, and lot of the
Illuminating caps used III blasting. Less
terrifying items were pictures OF DIR.
McGlynn and William O'Brien. There
were lot Of unimportant~ letters, i'm
plicating nobody, the Captain said, and
some vaporings about the Canadian
seizures,
"Now, Mooney" said the Judge,
keeping ut q safe distance from the
dynamitard's museum, "what have
you been doing with these things
You're an intelligent man, and, 1 hear,
something OF an inventor. 1t seems
strange TO me that a man OF your abili-
ty should attempt to fire steamer I'LL
ed with innocent people. -
Mooney said that all the articles
shown had been used by him in limo.
cent experiments. 81 have studied
chemistry for two years and half,
said he, land this brass bomb, taking
it up, "has been used by me in con
nection with a patent | am trying to
get for torpedo. L have letters on
this subject from Secretary Whitney
and am in correspondence with the
Minister of War at Paris. Those le.
tiers were in my trunk"
James j. Clark, longshoreman,
testified to having seen Mooney throw
the bottle on the Queen and then pull
away.
81 believe you're sane, Mooney,
said the Judge, ION every subject cx
cept one. I'm going to send you t.
the city physician to be examined. L
he finds that you are insane shall senC
you to the lunatic asylum. If you arr
not l shall hold you for the grand jury.
Mooney was then taken back tC
lis cell. During his examination h'
neither admitted nor denied having
thrown the bottle. He made one OF
two spiteiul remarks about the Englisl
flag, but that was all. His aim seemed
| to be TO convince the Justice that h,
was an inventor, who once in awhile
engaged in harmless experiments. Mrs
Margaret Mooney, comely young wo
man of 223 east One hundred-and-sixtl
street, locked Mooney over in court
LAYING gone there prepared to CLAIM
him as the husband who abandoned
her four years ago. Acareful scrutiny
however, convinced her that her mis-
son had been in vain. Mrs. Mooney
said the descriptions given OF Mooney
in the Papers correspondent marvel
lousy with certain characteristics o
her truant husband. The names, too
were the same, and her Thomas ha(
also been a dynamitard. She seemed
much disappointed that the prisone
did not turn out as she had expected
The Unied Lrishman of last july
contains this letter under the headline
another Live Irishman -:
800 WEST FIFTY THIRD STREET, /
NEW YoBK, July %, 1886.
A friend OF niue wrote me the othe
day, stating that he doubted l wa
alive, as he hee d George Francis TraiI
say that O'Donovan Rosa was the only
live Irishman in New York. AS YOU
are the only Iri.hman in New Yorl
that seems to be alive, l desire, as Pool
Bah says, to associate myself with tina
expression OF regret. All the otheI
Irishmen of New York are either dead
or, worse still, crawling. | despis,
anything that crawls. | heard DR.. Nc
Glynn say July 9TH : 4" The Irish people
should accept no half measures from